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Academic Websites Ain't Got It--The A/B test 13 May 2012 | 01:54 pm
The most dismaying article I have read in recent months is The A/B Test: Inside the Technology that is Changing Business in Wired. So here is the basic idea. Brian Christian describes a process of...
Scholarship and Klout 8 May 2012 | 01:25 pm
My colleagues won't appreciate this comment, but I can't help but think that Klout will matter in the future in scholarship. In some sense it all ready does, but we measure Klout by way of citations ...
Comments, teaching & HuffPo Divorce 13 Jun 2011 | 03:04 am
My most recent post on the Huffington Post has gotten the most comments to date. (about 290 in 3 days). Most of my other posts generally only got less than 50 comments. The comments vary widely. O...
Huffington Post Social Media & Web Strategy-- Mix Education with Tabloid 3 Mar 2011 | 02:15 am
A central challenge in all teaching is to get the attention of the student. So how is this done on the web? Bob Garfield, On the Media, asks this question of Farad Manjoo of Slate. Here is what he....
Interesting Huff Post pattern 25 Feb 2011 | 11:35 am
The editors at Huffington Post are doing a nice job of mixing the various postings-- various practitioners (therapists, lawyers, authors of various types), a little research and lots of celebrity divo...
Linking News, research and outreach--An example 20 Feb 2011 | 03:26 am
One of the central themes in my work (See my proposal for linking science to practice) has been to champion the linking of research, news, and outreach activities in order to connect all these activ...
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother-- Another opportunity to teach parenting 17 Jan 2011 | 08:25 am
The book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua is stirring an important discussion of the role of parents in their children's success. Some of the controversy over this book was stirred up by t...
Participating Online about Parenting 17 Jan 2011 | 08:13 am
This cartoon which shows a gun with the word "parenting" as the safety switch was a major topic of discussion in my house this week. It raised lots of questions. 1. Are parents to blame for gun vi....
Autism: The Long Tail of Misinformation (Seth Mnookin) 10 Jan 2011 | 01:49 pm
There has been a consensus among scientists for many years that there is little evidence that vaccines cause autism, but that has not stopped many in the general public to continue to believe this ide...
Citizen Scientists? 1 Jan 2011 | 08:00 pm
The web is increasing the opportunities for more people to become involved in science and to participate in data collection, data analysis, etc. This New York Times article highlights a number of eff...
